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    Default The Political Assassination of Michael Flynn

    If we are to believe the Trump White House, National Security Adviser Michael Flynn just resigned because he lied about his conversations with Russia's ambassador to the vice president. As White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway told NBC's "Today Show" on Tuesday: "Misleading the vice president really was the key here."

    The point here is that for a White House that has such a casual and opportunistic relationship with the truth, it's strange that Flynn's "lie" to Pence would get him fired. It doesn't add up.

    It's not even clear that Flynn lied. He says in his resignation letter that he did not deliberately leave out elements of his conversations with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak when he recounted them to Vice President Mike Pence. The New York Times and Washington Post reported that the transcript of the phone call reviewed over the weekend by the White House could be read different ways. One White House official with knowledge of the conversations told me that the Russian ambassador raised the sanctions to Flynn and that Flynn responded that the Trump team would be taking office in a few weeks and would review Russia policy and sanctions. That's neither illegal nor improper.


    A better explanation here is that Flynn was just thrown under the bus. His tenure as national security adviser, the briefest in U.S. history, was rocky from the start. When Flynn was attacked in the media for his ties to Russia, he was not allowed by the White House to defend himself. Over the weekend, he was instructed not to speak to the press when he was in the fight for his political life. His staff was not even allowed to review the transcripts of his call to the Russian ambassador.

    There is another component to this story as well -- as Trump himself just tweeted. It's very rare that reporters are ever told about government-monitored communications of U.S. citizens, let alone senior U.S. officials. The last story like this to hit Washington was in 2009 when Jeff Stein, then of CQ, reported on intercepted phone calls between a senior Aipac lobbyist and Jane Harman, who at the time was a Democratic member of Congress.

    Normally intercepts of U.S. officials and citizens are some of the most tightly held government secrets. This is for good reason. Selectively disclosing details of private conversations monitored by the FBI or NSA gives the permanent state the power to destroy reputations from the cloak of anonymity. This is what police states do.

    In the past it was considered scandalous for senior U.S. officials to even request the identities of U.S. officials incidentally monitored by the government (normally they are redacted from intelligence reports). John Bolton's nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations was derailed in 2006 after the NSA confirmed he had made 10 such requests when he was Undersecretary of State for Arms Control in George W. Bush's first term. The fact that the intercepts of Flynn's conversations with Kislyak appear to have been widely distributed inside the government is a red flag.

    Representative Devin Nunes, the Republican chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told me Monday that he saw the leaks about Flynn's conversations with Kislyak as part of a pattern.
    "There does appear to be a well orchestrated effort to attack Flynn and others in the administration," he said. "From the leaking of phone calls between the president and foreign leaders to what appears to be high-level FISA Court information, to the leaking of American citizens being denied security clearances, it looks like a pattern."
    Nunes said he was going to bring this up with the FBI, and ask the agency to investigate the leak and find out whether Flynn himself is a target of a law enforcement investigation. The Washington Post reported last month that Flynn was not the target of an FBI probe.

    The background here is important. Three people once affiliated with Trump's presidential campaign -- Carter Page, Paul Manafort and Roger Stone -- are being investigated by the FBI and the intelligence community for their contacts with the Russian government. This is part of a wider inquiry into Russia's role in hacking and distributing emails of leading Democrats before the election.

    Flynn himself traveled in 2015 to Russia to attend a conference put on by the country's propaganda network, RT. He has acknowledged he was paid through his speaker's bureau for his appearance. That doesn't look good, but it's also not illegal in and of itself. All of this is to say there are many unanswered questions about Trump's and his administration's ties to Russia.

    But that's all these allegations are at this point: unanswered questions. It's possible that Flynn has more ties to Russia that he had kept from the public and his colleagues. It's also possible that a group of national security bureaucrats and former Obama officials are selectively leaking highly sensitive law enforcement information to undermine the elected government.

    Flynn was a fat target for the national security state. He has cultivated a reputation as a reformer and a fierce critic of the intelligence community leaders he once served with when he was the director the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Barack Obama. Flynn was working to reform the intelligence-industrial complex, something that threatened the bureaucratic prerogatives of his rivals.

    He was also a fat target for Democrats. Remember Flynn's breakout national moment last summer was when he joined the crowd at the Republican National Convention from the dais calling for Hillary Clinton to be jailed.

    In normal times, the idea that U.S. officials entrusted with our most sensitive secrets would selectively disclose them to undermine the White House would alarm those worried about creeping authoritarianism. Imagine if intercepts of a call between Obama's incoming national security adviser and Iran's foreign minister leaked to the press before the nuclear negotiations began? The howls of indignation would be deafening.

    In the end, it was Trump's decision to cut Flynn loose. In doing this he caved in to his political and bureaucratic opposition. Nunes told me Monday night that this will not end well. "First it's Flynn, next it will be Kellyanne Conway, then it will be Steve Bannon, then it will be Reince Priebus," he said. Put another way, Flynn is only the appetizer. Trump is the entree.
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    Well anatta, there is no point in trying to defend lying to the VP and causing him to unknowingly repeat those lies.....

    Flynn screwed up and got what he deserved.....
    Put blame where it belongs
    ATF decided it could not regulate bump stocks during the Obama administration.
    It that time," the NRA wrote in a statement. "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."
    The ATF and Obama admin. ignored the NRA recommendations.


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    flynn got fired by obama and trump lol.
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    It is laughable to imagine that Trump fired someone for lying.
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    18 U.S. Code § 2071 - Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally
    44 U.S.C. 2202 - The United States shall reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of Presidential records; and such records shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.


    LOCK HIM UP!

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    MWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHA Oh this is hilarious. Michael Flynn proved himself the biggest hypocrite of the year by doing exactly what he wanted to prosecute Clinton for and you irrational apologist want to wipe his ass, powder him to cover up the stench and expect anyone with the IQ to rub two sticks together to believe this sort of hackery?

    No doubt you believe we're all a special kind of stupid! Thanks for insulting our intelligence. Best laugh I've had in a while! LOL LOL LOL
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    He should have been on a terrorist watch list for the disgusting shenanigans he pulled with pizza gate.

    He's covering Dumps ass..........that is until he'll have to serve time. We'll see how loyal he is then.

    He's not smart enough to pull this off alone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    It is laughable to imagine that Trump fired someone for lying.
    For a sin that he said Clinton should be behind bars for. Oh watching these wingnut partisans dance on the head of a pin is priceless.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    For a sin that he said Clinton should be behind bars for. Oh watching these wingnut partisans dance on the head of a pin is priceless.
    What he did was much worse than what he accused Clinton of having done.
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    LOCK HIM UP!

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    Quote Originally Posted by tsuke View Post
    flynn got fired by obama and trump lol.
    He got fired by President Obama. He got busted under Dump and resigned.

    He'd still be pulling off his scheme under Dump had he not got caught.............just saying.

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    The Political Assassination of Michael Flynn

    was perpetrated entirely by Republicans.

    News this hour reports no law was broken. What was broken was the bond of trust between the chief execs, and their self-selected appointee.

    Schumer (D-NY) didn't fire Flynn.
    Hillary (D-NY) didn't fire Flynn.

    Flynn's exit was the doing of the Trump administration.

    Have a nice day, and happy St. Valentine's Day. Alright?

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    Quote Originally Posted by TTQ64 View Post
    He should have been on a terrorist watch list for the disgusting shenanigans he pulled with pizza gate.

    He's covering Dumps ass..........that is until he'll have to serve time. We'll see how loyal he is then.

    He's not smart enough to pull this off alone.
    Poor Flynn...fired by two US Presidents. His reputation has taken a serious hit. I say we all pitch in together to buy him a pizza! LOL LOL LOL LOL
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    General Flynn, the only person on Trump's team that the media has been able to force to resign....is a Democrat.


    lolololololololololololololol
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Poor Flynn...fired by two US Presidents. His reputation has taken a serious hit. I say we all pitch in together to buy him a pizza! LOL LOL LOL LOL
    LMAO.....I aint pitching in shit for him. spit!

    Had he not been busted. He'd still be on Dumps team. Dump wasn't going to fire him he was sitting I on security meetings just yesterday.

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    "the media has been able to force to resign..." t #12

    How sorrowful that our REPUBLICAN presidential administration is such hapless victim to the whim of media!

    If only the cosmos weren't so cruel to REPUBLICANS !!

    OH THE HUMANITY !!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by tsuke View Post
    General Flynn, the only person on Trump's team that the media has been able to force to resign....is a Democrat.


    lolololololololololololololol
    So?

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